Chelsea told Ellen DeGeneres that her own marriage cemented her support for marriage equality

Chelsea Clinton has waded into the world of light-entertainment interviews to aide her mother’s presidential campaign. Her recent sit-down with Ellen DeGeneres revealed an intriguing insight into Hillary Clinton’s support for same-sex marriage.

Telling DeGeneres that she won “the mom jackpot,” Clinton stated that she “absolutely” helped push her mother into supporting marriage equality.

“When I got married in 2010 to my best friend it just crystallized so fundamentally to me that everyone should be allowed to marry their best friend,” she said. “And so I joined the equal marriage fight in New York and we got equal marriage in New York in 2011.”

Clinton and husband Marc Mezvinsky have a daughter together, something she says further validates her support for same-sex marriage.

“I am just so proud that our country is the country that I want my daughter to grow up in so she can marry whoever she want to marry,” said said. “But she needs to learn to walk first.”

“I see the dangers that you and your families face. And I’m running for president to end them, once and for all,” Clinton later added. “I’ve been fighting alongside you and others for equal rights, and I’m just getting warmed up.”

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